Pickfords house, , derby
18 April – 28 June 2009
Went to france for a week to look after my mum who broke her leg. For the first time in 13 years spent in England, I felt funny about leaving the country thinking of the studio and my work! We […]
Hi, In these blogs I hope to give you an insight into the artists involved with this project, as well as update you on progress towards our exhibition in September. I thought I would tell you a little about Bordeaux […]
How to not buy an i-phone in 4 chapters. 1. After much deliberation, and aching shoulders from lugging a laptop around, decide to invest in an i-phone. 4pm Sunday, pile family into car, drive to O2 shop, discover that current […]
2 days before departure Enjoying spring Chicken on South Mountain surrounded by cherry blossom and Bonsai trees. This is Chen. She is very talented. She is a musician, artist and for a living works on the radio playing the latest […]
Friend’s of Yan Yan Zheng Li is doing a residency at Quad, Derby. http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/ar… Yingmei Duan. Marina Abramovic Presents..The Whitworth Art Gallery. She is naked and walking slowly around the space. She pauses between each step and sways gently. I […]
One way to document such a thing; Each night, take out from one pack a small pouch from the exhibition in London, place it in the uncontrived pile of ones possessions that billow out from the tent and the pack. […]
Could anyone be so lost! I went to see the Bournemouth degree show today with the intention of driving on to Kube gallery in Poole after. All went OK until I tried to find the Kube gallery from the Art […]
Steve McQueen, Britain’s representative at the Venice Biennale, was giving a press conference about his artwork, a short film depicting the setting of the Biennale after the glamorous art world had left. A reporter from a Sunday newspaper asked whether […]
Day two on Inishlacken and the weather ensured a later start as we all woke to mist and fog and a dampness in the air. Once on the island however, everybody started work in earnest – the painters painted and […]
Acting muscle at it’s best…went to see The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov, at the Old Vic on Friday and then, The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare, on Saturday to mark what would have been Emily’s mothers 80th Birthday. We went to BAM in […]
So I have decided to start making another painting in between finishing two off. Why not?!. I just keep thinking that I want a great choice of work to pick from for my show at JJ. That I like to […]
“What are you reading, Dad?”. “It’s called ‘Get Clients Now!’, it’s about marketing.” “What’s ‘Marketing’?” “It’s about selling things” “What are you selling, will we be rich?”. Er …No. My daughter’s optimism is charming, but misplaced. What am I selling? […]
Preparing for the exhibition at John Jones and for others I constantly examine and consider my practise. A question that comes up from time to time is why I use embroidery within my works. I studied Mixed Media Textiles at […]
I have just paid my final payment for this job into my account and that feels like closure on it really. The opening ceremony has fizzled to nothing, I believe there is still finance unspent to fund it. I believe […]
I thought I would update my small part of the web with some new paintings. I completed these paintings far too close to the deadline date for the Threadneedle Prize last week. But I got them in on time and […]
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June seems to mainly involve waiting to get paid from various jobs done long ago, trying to catch up with my life and also holding back from making any plans whatsoever as other people make (very last-minute) decisions about where […]
Performance
Celebrating my exhibition.
Notes on the work: I have a number of ideas and projects running through my head, my dreams. And coming to visual arts from another artform I’m fond of writing out my ideas, making lists and adding the odd line […]
Jane Ponsford: visual arts organiser The purpose of this blog is to focus and reflect on our two main activities this year, the artist residency and r and d for our organisational development. So posts to the blog will be […]
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